Someone came out. He had information of a prisoner, came out. He had information. In some cases somebody goes into to something and the person he comes out and he says ive seen westerners. We had some cases of syrian prisoners been released escaping, seen westerners. Unfortunately, a lot of this wasnt realtime. Most of the time its like a hollywood movie. They slipped through our fingers. We have been in the location a week or two ago. We didnt have definitive realtime information until the hostages began being released. When you talk about fbi its a Law Enforcement thing for them. When they debrief hostages theyre more interested in putting together a case against the hostage taker as opposed to finding the hostage takers trying to get a solution. A problem for People Like Us is that we saw the government, the government and the agency as an iceberg. We dont with so few people above water, above ground and they interact and interface with the other agencies so we did know what was goi
Some of us still believe in battleships, and we are not sure that alaska should have ever been made a state. [laughter] senator king p request with some trepidation, mr. Chairman i want to associate myself with the senator from alaskas questions. The arctic is emerging as any normally important and strategic area. We have one heavy icebreaker and one medium icebreaker. The estimates are the russians have 710 icebreakers. That is just basic infrastructure. And the resources up there and the strategic implications are enormous, so i appreciate the senator raising the question. We have to put the discussion into context in terms of your budget. This chart, which im sure youre familiar with, is the last 50 years of defense spending as a percentage of gdp. Starting in 1962 at about 9 , today it is 3. 3 and headed down , at a time of increasing threat and payroll for our country. Often we get confused about the absolute dollar amounts, but a percent of gdp as a way of comparing apples to app
Enough sanctions on to pressure them to implement the agreement, you dont want to take all of the sanctions off in the first few months, to me, that is a better deal for the United States than risking a confrontation in which we get involved in some kind of third big military conflict in the middle east which is the possibility. You have to weigh the pros and cons. I weigh them on the side of president obama. Richmond, texas, an independent color. Independent caller. The simple fact is that there are only two groups that can solve this. The sunni and the shiite. We have already lost the middle east. There is no reason for us to be there. Until those groups can settle their differences, there will never be peace in the middle east. Ask lets take that point. Thank you for your question and comment. I respectfully disagree. The sunni and shiite have been at odds since the seventh century, since mohammed, since the word of all a allah was resolved. The United States has great interest in t
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Development staff, we are going to switch gears a little bit and talk about the water taxi, something that is relatively new to us all here in San Francisco. The one on the left that you have not seen is the boat belonging to the San Francisco water taxi and you know, you could see it in action there, and in that the other one on the right is or belongs to our other, and our second operator, and tide line marine group and you can see it there, and docked at pier 1 and a half here in the fair building area. And i am going to be talking a little bit more about both of those operators in a moment. And just to go through kind of what i am going to be covering, in this presentation. I will talk about the purpose of this work in this presentation, and a little bit of background, about the current operators, and their operations. I tell you about some Research Efforts that we have been doing to kind of inform ourselves, about water taxi in other places. And to get some ideas for us here in Sa